Sunday, October 26, 2014

Events of Oct 21-25, 2014 in nutshell



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21-Oct-14
The UK government announced the inaugural Dadabhai Naoroji Awards to honour individuals who have worked to strengthen the UK-India relationship over the years. Awards were given to Patricia Hewitt, Asha khemka and Madhav Sharma
Joko Widodo was sworn in as seventh president of Indonesia.
South African Tourism launched Gandhi–Inspired Tourist Attraction project that identifies 13 places that were seminal in Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s time in South Africa.
Government launched National Portal for Museums.
A Committee has been set up under the Chairmanship of TK Vishwanathan, to study the corporate bankruptcy legal framework in India
PM to inaugurate World Ayurveda Conference on November 6 in New Delhi
India was re-elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the period of 2015 to 2017. [Click Here]




22-Oct-14
Manohar Lal Khattar to be the next Chief Minister of Haryana
The Government has appointed Shri N Gopalaswami as Chairman of the Governing Board of the Kalakshetra Foundation in Chennai.
Modi announces that Oct 31 to be celebrated as National Unity Day (Vallabhai Patel's birth anniversary)
Canada Parliament attacked by terrorists; 2 persons killed

23-Oct-14
PM celebrates Diwali with officers and jawans of the Indian Armed Forces
Chennai has been chosen as the 9th Best Cosmopolitan city in the world [Click Here]








24-Oct-14
India signed the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), an initiative by Chennai
UN Day
Government approves Twenty (20) Proposals of Foreign Direct Investment amounting to Rs 988.3 Crore
India offers cooperation to Pakistan to end polio
Urban Development Minister Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu has adopted ‘ChepalaUppada’ village of Visakhapatnam district in Andhra Pradesh for rehabilitation and development in the aftermath of recent cyclone ‘Hudhud’ that ravaged north coastal districts of the state.
World's first: surgeons transplant dead heart
India's Pankaj Advani won his 11th World Billiards Championships
Tamil cinema’s veteran actor Sedapatti Suryanarayana Thevar Rajendran, popularly known as SSR passed away



25-Oct-14
EC announces Election Dates for J&K and Jharkhand
Defence projects worth a whooping of Rs. 80000 crore were cleared by the government
Ebola cases hit 10000 mark in Western Africa
102 pilots of Air India flying with lapsed licences
President released a commemorative stamp on Anagarika Dharmapala



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